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De venganza y liberación: cuando “parar el cuerpo” implica existir por fuera de la máquina

  • June 25, 2025
  • Soledad Bavio
  • CULTURE, HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Alguien despierta cuando aún las calles están quietas. Le asoma el alba pero todavía es de noche. La metrópolis sigue dormida. Eso no es para todos. Abre los ojos...
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Decolonising Listening

  • June 21, 2025
  • Jamie Perera
  • CRITICAL THEORY
Definitions and Positionality: I thought it a good idea to create a glossary as a way to clarify the terms, positionality, and perspectives used in this article. It aims...
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Decolonizing Digital Realms: Reclaiming Online Narratives from the Shadows of Colonial Oppression

  • May 18, 2025
  • Jesse Ubani
  • CRITICAL THEORY, TECHNOLOGY
The internet promised a borderless world, but colonial power structures still dominate digital spaces. From data extractivism to biased algorithms, tech giants continue to perpetuate inequality. This article explores...
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Women’s Right to Rest

  • May 17, 2025
  • Eugenie Rodriguez Huibonhoa
  • HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Women’s worth has long been defined by their labor, but the radical act of rest, free from the demands of profit, offers a chance to reclaim agency and dignity....
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Decolonizing Beauty: Reclaiming Beauty, One Coil at a Time

  • May 15, 2025
  • Ester Pinheiro
  • BEAUTY, CULTURE
It takes courage to be seen as you are, to decolonize beauty, when the world tells you to hide your roots. Hair is not just hair In Latin America,...
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Is Tourism Good for Economies? Or Just Another Tool for Colonial Exploitation?

  • May 7, 2025
  • Nandita Rajshekhar
  • BORDER POLITICS, CULTURE, POLITICS
Tourism is often sold as a win-win for travelers and host countries, but beneath the glossy brochures and beachfront cocktails lies a stark reality of displacement, environmental destruction, and...
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Vomit, Visions, and Vultures: How Ayahuasca Became a Colonial Reset Button for Burned-Out Tech Bros

  • May 3, 2025
  • Ajani Brathwaite
  • CRITICAL THEORY, CULTURE, HEALTH AND WELLNESS
There’s a certain type of person – let’s call him a Soul-Searching Chad – who books a flight to Peru with a Patagonia duffel and the hope of ‘purging...
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May Renewal: Our relationship with our bodies, time & selves

  • May 2, 2025
  • Leslie Vargas
  • CULTURE
In this month’s reflection, I want to share something deeply personal, something that’s been challenging me for a while. It’s a conversation about my body—how I’ve struggled with body...
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Spiritual Birthkeeping: African and Indigenous Rituals in Doula & Midwifery Work

  • April 19, 2025
  • Leslie Vargas
  • BODY AUTONOMY AND RIGHTS, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, SPIRITUALITY
In the sacred space where life begins, birth has always been more than a biological process; it is a deeply spiritual and cultural event. Across Africa and Indigenous communities,...
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Freedom Dreaming for Collective Liberation

  • April 1, 2025
  • Steff Reed
  • PERSONAL ESSAY, POLITICS
“An organizer is a social arsonist, who goes around lighting people on fire,” – Fred Ross. Right now the world is quite literally on fire. Los Angeles is burning....
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My Female Body as a Battleground Against the Colonial Gaze

  • March 28, 2025
  • Minh-Ly De Reboul
  • BODY AUTONOMY AND RIGHTS, FEMINIST THEORY
As I distance myself from colonial, traditional depictions of femininity,The charming woman, captivating, yet transcendent of her shallow past.She descends from Thebes, Crete, Chichén Itzá, Quan Âm  A totem,...
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Soundtrack to success

  • March 15, 2025
  • Hillary KJ
  • CULTURE, CULTURE, ART AND FILM, POLITICS
The de-radicalisation of Jazz hurts the DRC till this day. I sat down with Lizmnk, a singer-songwriter from the Congolese diaspora and Aleria, a violinist-singer and British Nigerian.  What...
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TERFs & Transphobes: What’s really at play?

  • March 10, 2025
  • Ooretoluse Delano
  • CULTURE
So, Natalie B’s recent video about making her gym exclusively for “biologically female” women has been making waves. At first glance, it might seem like a move for “safety”...
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Questions Against Disaffection

  • February 25, 2025
  • Taariq Ali Sheik
  • CULTURE, FICTION
Haddaway: What is Love “What is love, baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more.” To love in this world is to be heartbroken. How can we not...
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Decolonizing the 9-5 — Rethinking Work & Time Structures 

  • February 11, 2025
  • Ajani Brathwaite
  • CULTURE
Act 1: Work Was Never Meant to Be This Way The 9-to-5 is a scam. A relic of violence dressed up as normalcy. People treat it like a natural...
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